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"Awareness was lowest in Russia (64 percent), Brazil (56 percent) and the United States (56 percent), and highest in India (61 percent) and Egypt (70 percent)". Err, what? NW (Talk) 00:40, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

• I think the writer meant to use the percent unaware for the first set and the percent aware of the fact for the second set. Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:46, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Yeah I probably should have clarified that. ResMar 02:36, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

• How is it that the NPP work the WMF claims is a "top priority" (and could have easily been resolved through more effective means) has sat dormant since September due to a "shoestring budget", yet they can spend half a million dollars on the IEP and go to Tunisia? The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 01:22, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

I agree; they have a seriously deep reserve of cash right now, wouldn't hurt to use it. ResMar 02:38, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Actually, we are developing the tool; Blade, I sent you an email weeks ago explaining what was going on. I should have the engagement strategy and survey out by the end of this coming week :). In future, if people have questions about how development is going, it might be an idea to ask ;). I'm happy to talk to anyone and answer any questions if you just let me know you have them. In relation to "Inactive since September"; We ran the survey in October/November (and I know you're aware of that, because you replied to it) and have been holding interviews with patrollers in December and January. I appreciate this may seem slow; it took 3 weeks for legal to approve our permissions forms, because they kept getting distracted by other stuff. Nevertheless, we have started development. Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 03:14, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

• The Marathi Wikisource has been made too, with Lezghian Wikipedia with a bug submitted (bugzilla:34223) ~~Ebe123~~ → report on my contribs. 00:30, 10 February 2012 (UTC)